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- Comment on What is your Game of the Year? 23 hours ago:
I… I played a lot of guild wars 2. It’s a good game!
But about 40 games total. I don’t want to be a mono-gamer so that’s nice.
- Comment on Coming soon – offline speech recognition on your phone 6 days ago:
I don’t think I’ve ever desired to have speech as an interface for a device.
Yeah, I could yell at it “Open the browser and go to uhh the order of the stick comic index page” and maybe it would get it right. Or I could just… click on the browser, type
ootand pick it from the drop down. Faster, no error, no expensive processing.I don’t drive (cars are a bad form of transit and I’m lucky enough to not need one) and I’m not hands-full in the kitchen often.
- Comment on RFK Jr.’s Lawyer Has Asked the FDA to Revoke Polio Vaccine Approval 1 week ago:
I would nullify if I was on the jury and Something happened to this dangerous idiot.
- Comment on Epic’s holiday sale includes 16 free games this year 1 week ago:
I haven’t looked into how epic works on Linux, but I assume not as nicely as steam. So it’s kind of a non starter now
- Comment on Writing tip: just start brain dumping 1 week ago:
I don’t grade papers, but I imagine a bit of flavor stands out favorably from all the other very generic writings.
- Comment on Bumper sticker 1 week ago:
I’m not going to try to change your mind here. Changing someone’s mind means taking care to massage their emotions, make them feel good about themselves and you, and get them to make the decisions on their own for their own reasons. It’s a lot of work. I’m going to skip it.
Have you considered that you might be stupid? I’m not joking. Seriously. Because “I haven’t personally seen it, so I don’t think it’s real” in this kind of context, maybe most contexts, is weapons grade stupid. What else don’t you believe in? Bacteria? France? Submarines?
When you’re done being mad about being insulted, en.wikipedia.org/…/Violence_against_transgender_p… might be a good entry point.
- Comment on Why Running the Government Like a Business Would Be a Disaster 1 week ago:
Most businesses fail. Most businesses don’t have to serve everyone. Businesses want to make profit, and the service is secondary.
Anyone who thinks government should be run like a business should not be allowed to have any decision making power about government or businesses.
- Comment on You don't need to answer this 2 weeks ago:
And, for an instant, she stared directly into those soft blue eyes and knew, with an instinctive mammalian certainty, that the exceedingly rich were no longer even remotely human.Gibson, Count Zero
- Comment on Torrent of Hate for Health Insurance Industry Follows C.E.O.’s Killing 2 weeks ago:
First, they might wear body armor now.
Put at least one in the head to be sure.
- Comment on Amazon pumps additional $4Bn in AI Start-up Anthropic 3 weeks ago:
Would rather they invest in, like, housing, food security, climate crisis, any number of other more useful things. I know you could say that about anything- like all the money being spent on movies seems frivolous next to that stuff- but AI is especially dubious.
Our society’s priorities are all wrong, and I don’t think it’s going to get better without a lot of suffering. Maybe not even then.
- Comment on ugh i wish 3 weeks ago:
You’re going to be pretty sad when your kid dies to your poorly informed decisions.
- Comment on BACK IT UP 3 weeks ago:
This guy is a fool and I hope he is removed from power.
- Comment on The Right Has a Bluesky Problem 3 weeks ago:
All of these stories I feel the same way: moving to another centralized privately owned platform is stupid.
- Comment on Steam drops Windows 7 and 8 support with the latest client — users told to ‘update to a more recent version of Windows’ to continue gaming 5 weeks ago:
I switched to mint because ms won’t even let me upgrade to 11 if I wanted to. Other than some initial hurdles installing it, and losing some hd space because I kept windows on the other partition, it’s been fine. Proton and Wine are pretty low maintenance
- Comment on To appease a Steam user's demands for straight representation, Webfishing added a 'Straight' title that costs 9,999 fish bucks 5 weeks ago:
as an almost maximally privileged person (cis straight etc), i want my whining fellows to shut the fuck up. Just stop. Stop taking up all the god damn space. Just be quiet. It’s okay not to be included in every scene all the time.
Your point about not assuming people are straight by default is valid. But I mostly just want some cis-het folks to stop embarrassing me by being fucking insufferable.
- Comment on What type of game do you want to see? 5 weeks ago:
A dark souls kind of slow paced combat game, but built for co-op. Except I don’t have any friends who are on the same skill level and schedule.
More broadly, I really want more games that you can play co-op in where the players are vastly different skill levels, but it’s still fun. I don’t know how to solve this.
I can imagine like a game where one person is playing dark souls and the other is playing candy crush, and they interact somehow. Like making matches in one give estus in the other, and killing bosses gives stuff.
Basically I want to play games with my frienda that don’t play the same games, somehow.
- Comment on Francis Ford Coppola's "Megalopolis" has ended its theatrical run after just 4 weeks with only $12.5 million, against its $120 million budget. 1 month ago:
I read the wiki summary and it sounds kind of incoherent and bad. Too many plot beats, and he can stop time??
- Comment on How come people who are against abortion are in favor of the death penalty? Kind of seems like a contradicition/ 1 month ago:
Lots of people never reach more advanced stages of moral reasoning. They don’t do bad things to avoid being punished, or maybe because they have a simple understanding of “it’s against the rules”
The current justice and prison system is abhorrent, but something needs to happen if someone tries to murder someone else. Most people are alright but there are a lot of anti social people out there, too. And a lot of people who would be alright if they were in more stable circumstances
- Comment on Do you actually care about your friend's new baby, vacation abroad or similar life events or are you just being nice? 2 months ago:
Depends a lot on the details and execution.
Some friends can tell a good story about having a beer anywhere. Other folks would make meeting (some well liked celebrity) tedious.
I’m a little too deep into the “I had an onion on my belt” side of things, so I try to be patient with other people’s meanderings.
- Comment on TWEET 2 months ago:
Funny but snopes says merely a legend www.snopes.com/fact-check/field-of-seeds/
- Comment on Please stop 2 months ago:
I’m afraid to ask but what?
- Comment on Request for CRPGs recs on the current Steam sale 2 months ago:
I also really liked pillars 2, and am sad they’re not making a third one.
- Comment on Corporate greed is killing RuneScape. What do people play instead? 2 months ago:
Guild wars 2 is a very good game, but very different than guild wars 1.
They both avoid the endless gear and level grind, but gw2 is generally easier and less tactical. You can solo most of it. Builds are a little more limited, but it’s also harder to make a useless character.
They addressed the most common problems with early mmos: other players are never a bad thing. there’s no kill stealing. If you’re doing some event to fight off demons that have invaded the town, and other people show up, the game silently scales up a to accommodate more players, and everyone gets credit. it’s great.
I really like it. I don’t play it every day, but I go back to it all the time.
- Comment on Has to be the manor 2 months ago:
My parents and grandparents would get weirdly but wholesomely excited whenever they saw the animation on the cards (like the sun on the beach smiling). They all played a lot of solitaire.
- Comment on I love diablo-likes, but they're also really annoying. 2 months ago:
Have you played Nioh2? It has diablo-like items, but actual combat. It’s very good.
- Comment on I love diablo-likes, but they're also really annoying. 2 months ago:
What if leveling up didn’t make number get big, but instead gave you more options in a fight?
Horizontal progression is pretty cool .
Unfortunately, a lot of people don’t want that. They want to feel cool and competent without actually doing anything. That’s not to say like you need to “earn” your fun or whatever. But that the progress quest number go up don’t think too hard is immensely popular with a lot of people. They don’t want to be challenged.
- Comment on I love diablo-likes, but they're also really annoying. 2 months ago:
I still remember the thrill when I was a teenager when I clicked a random corpse in Diablo 1’s hell and the unique staff Mindcry popped out.
- Comment on Do remote workers actually work? Yes, but they also shop and shower 2 months ago:
I worked at a different company that was big on “data driven decisions”. They had tshirts made that literally said something like"data > feelings"
Before the pandemic, someone mentioned that studies were showing 4 day work weeks were effective and made people happier. The CEO just said “Yeah we’re not doing that.” Didn’t read the article or the study. Just nah.
After the pandemic, they were making people go back into the office. Same energy.
So what I’m saying is management and leadership are often just gutfeel idiots. Expensive babies.
- Comment on I need a Glassdoor account AND a review of a previous employer to see reviews on the website 2 months ago:
Bugmenot sometimes has LinkedIn credentials bugmenot.com/view/linkedin.com
Don’t click any of the scam ones though
- Comment on Does the GOP Stick Together so tightly to hide the fact that a large majority of them are involved in Pedophilia? 2 months ago: